wade walker : flash developer

If you are a hard core Mac OS X user, chances are you have heard of Quicksilver. Quicksilver is really hard to categorize as far as what kind of application it is, but if it is anything, it’s a glorified application launcher. Its faster then Spotlight in many cases when it comes to searching for an application that you want to launch. Quicksilver, with the use of plug-ins, can also open up folders, search the web, archive files, etc. Quicksilver can practically do anything and its designed so that your hands never have to leave the keyboard.

Well, now you have, to an extent, those features on Windows through an application called Launchy. This app is designed as an application and folder launcher and has support for plug-ins, which there are developers out there creating plug-ins for Launchy. Here is the description from Launchy’s website:
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.

Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

I haven’t explored it thoroughly yet, but from my initial use of it, there are a few little things that I don’t like about it. One thing is that you can’t set any preferences when it comes to setting the hotkey or any other preferences that deal with the application. With all that said, it is still definitely an application worth trying out for being more productive in Windows.